planckscale's Journal: Knoppix 3.2 Hard Drive installation

I downloaded the latest .iso for Knoppix 3.2 from www.filemirrors.com last night, burned a cd and it boots and runs correctly from the CD on my Inspiron 8000 - yay! I was able to use Knoppix 3.1 to install the full version of Debian on my hard drive. Just tried it again with Knoppix 3.2 and it's giving me trouble. At the desktop I press Ctrl+Alt+F1, press enter, then enter again, and get to a command prompt. At the prompt I type

knx-hdinstall

this brings up "Choose a hard disk". By pressing the space bar I select my HD and press enter (ok)

This brings up cfdisk 2.11y. I delete all partitions and then I choose 'new' -> Primary -> Size: 9400 (mb) -> at beginning of free space. I have a 10gb HD and want to leave 600mb for my swap. I then chose 'type - #85 (linux extended) and then chose 'write' partition table to disk and mark it bootable.

Next I select my 600mb partition, chose 'new' -> logical -> type = Linux swap -> write -> yes.

Quit

Do you want to use a swap partition? -> yes

choose a swap partition: (x) /dev/hda5 619MB

Do you want to set up /dev/hda5 as a swap? ->yes

Choose root partition: (x) /dev/hda1 8965MB

Filesystem type: (x) ext3

Do you want to create a filesystem -> yes

An error occured while creating the filesystem. Some messages from mkfs: /usr/local/bin/knx0hdinstall: line 845 /sbin/mkfs.ext3: Input/output error

Maybe it's a cd-read problem, or the mkfs cannot use my system bus to create the file system. Next I will try to install without creating the filesystem. I ran into a different problem earlier trying to create a swap but overcame it by choosing to make the swap partition logical rather than a Primary swap partition.